Presentations

International Congress on Circumpolar Health
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories—July 11-16, 2009
Julia presented a paper, “Everyone wants to have a place?: homelessness, housing insecurity, and housing challenges for single men in the Northwest Territories, Canada”
See http://icch2009.circumpolarhealth.org/

Inland Northwest Research Alliance Lessons from Continuity and Change, Fourth International Polar Year Conference
Fairbanks, Alaska—March 2009
Alana Kronstal represented the GAPS initiative at this symposium in Fairbanks and presented an overview of this unique multicountry, multidiciplinary IPY project and provided a primer on how human security is being used as common a mode of inquiry to link the respective sub-projects that make up GAPS.

The Multiple Visions of Security in the Arctic Panel, International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention
New York City, New York—February 15-19, 2009
At the ISA Annual Convention, Gabrielle Slowey submitted a paper titled ‘Human Security in the Canadian Arctic: Transforming Canada’s First Nations through Self-Determination’.
See: http://isanet.ccit.arizona.edu/newyork09/program.pdf

International Polar Year Researchers’ Workshop
Quebec City, Quebec—December 2008
The IPY Researchers’ Workshop was an opportunity for Dawn to network with others in the Canadian IPY community.

ArcticNet Arctic Change 2008
Quebec City, Quebec—December 2008
Dawn Bazely attended this conference in Quebec City, hosted by ArcticNet Network of Centres of Excellence of Canada.

Yukon Invasive Species Symposium
Whitehorse, Yukon—October 2008
Dawn Bazely attended as a speaker a this conference titled “Pulling Together for Invasive Species” in Whitehorse. She presented on both the activities of this project, as well as other invasive species work that her Biology lab has been undertaking.

International Arctic Social Sciences Association (ICASS VI)
Nuuk, Greenland—August 22-26, 2008
Julia presented a paper, “Homeless in a Homeland: Resource Development and Housing (In)security in Inuvik, Paulatuk and Yellowknife, Northwest Territories”, as well as participated in a panel session.
See: http://www.icass.gl/pdf/bookofabstracts/19082008.pdf
Alana presented “Negotiating change: Community-based mental health and addictions practice in the Northwest Territories” at the conference in Nuuk, Greenland in August.
See: http://www.icass.gl/pdf/bookofabstracts/19082008.pdf
Gabrielle Slowey and Gunhild Hoogensen were the chair and co-chair respectively of a session titled “The Impacts of Oil and Gas Activity on Peoples of the Arctic using a Multiple Securities Perspective”.
See: http://www.icass.gl/pdf/session/14082008.pdf

Boom Bust Economies: Impacts on Rural and Remote Communities in Inuvik, NWT
Inuvik, NWT—June 18-21, 2008
Julia Christensen and Alana Kronstal attended this conference organized by the Rural Development Institute at Brandon University. Alana, Julia, and Julia’s Inuvik-based research assistant Kate Snow had the opportunity to share preliminary themes emerging from their recent field research in the Beaufort-Delta region with conference participants and members of the community of Inuvik.

Community-University Exposition (CUexpo)
Victoria, British Columbia—May 2008
Alana Kronstal attended the third national CUexpo held in Victoria. The theme of this conference was “Community-University Partnerships: Connecting for Change.” There, she presented a paper titled “Negotiating Change: Community-Based Mental Health and Addictions Practice in the Northwest Territories”. The emphasis of this presentation was on the process she followed to determine her research question in consultation with community-based health professionals in the Northwest Territories. She also discussed the ethics approval process that is involved when doing health research in the NWT.
See: http://www.cuexpo08.ca/program/151-175.htm

Metropolia Arctica: Modern Urban Issues in the Circumpolar North
Aarhus, Denmark—February 2008
Julia Christensen met with other northern social scientists studying issues of urbanism and urbanization in the circumpolar North at this three-day workshop. At the first meeting of the group, links between the GAPS project and the Metropolia Arctica research were explored. The workshop resulted in plans for an edited book on northern urban issues.

Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies (ACUNS)
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan—November 2007
Julia Christensen and Alana Kronstal attended this conference. Julia’s paper was titled “Homelessness in a Homeland: Resource Development and Housing Security in the Northwest Territories”, and Alana’s paper was titled “Community health perspective on rapid industrial development in the NWT”. This was the 8th International ACUNS Student Conference on Northern Studies, and was titled “Melting Boundaries: Carrying Out Effective Research in the Circumpolar World”.
Julia and Alana were both invited to participate in a special panel discussion on northern research with other graduate students from northern Canada. This special discussion was sponsored by the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation.

European Society for Evolutionary Biology, 11th Congress
Uppsala, Sweden—August 2007
Nora Saona attended this conference where she presented a paper on fungal endophytes in grasses.

GAPS Researchers Workshop
Tromsø, Norway—August 2007
Fifteen researchers associated with or interested in the GAP project met in Tromsø, Norway in August 2007. Both current and past students supported by the project attended, including Andrew Tanentzap who was instrumental in writing the GAPS application. Andrew won a Gates Foundation Scholarship for his PhD at Cambridge University. The GAPS conference was the first opportunity for all colleagues to meet face-to-face and learn about the breadth and scope of its research activities.

Lectures to adult education classes

Christensen, J. May 2008. Housing as a determinant of health. Lecture to the Access II class at Aurora College, Yellowknife Campus.

Christensen, J. March 2009. Using qualitative methods to study housing insecurity and homelessness in the Northwest Territories. Lecture to Aurora College adult education class at Aurora College, Inuvik Campus.

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